How is taxonomy used to determine closely two organisms are related?
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Taxonomic designations increasingly rely on deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) sequence similarities. Because DNA mutates at a known rate, the more alike the DNA sequences are for two types of organisms, the more recently they diverged from a shared ancestor.
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